noun
Etymology
Origin of cockneyism
Example Sentences
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The angler of that ilk fifty years ago, as I can well remember, for all his cockneyism, worked hard for his sport, and enjoyed a fair amount of it.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
About midday on the fourth day we halted at the Mission of the White Dog, a spot which some more than heathen missionary had named Islington in a moment of virtuous cockneyism.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis
There was silence after this outburst, which for the life of me I could not help, remembering how I had suffered from cockneyism and its cause on those same waters of old time.
From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William
The novel might, it is true, savor a little of Parisian cockneyism.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
In one instance he is guilty of the barbarous cockneyism of using the word party as an equivalent for person.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
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